Campus Life

On campus dining is terrible and expensive however students have GWorld cash or dining dollars that can pay for your meal at amazing restaurants right down the street. Just don't waste your money on the cafeteria food.

Dining food is alright, some good days, some bad. Luckily we have Colonial Cash to buy food from other places.

The dining hall plan, called J Street, only applies to freshmen. J Street food isn't the best, but being in the heart of DC provides GW students with an incredible range of dining options. From food trucks, to the campus deli, to the cultural restaurants around campus, there are always new foods to try.

J Street and other on campus dining options are very mediocre. The options on the Mount Vernon Campus are somewhat better, but one can expect long lines at any of these locations during meal times. The best part of the GW dining plan is that students get an allotment of money to spend off-campus at dozens of vendors nearby. This saves freshmen from year round cafeteria food, and allows older students to shop for themselves. Dining options on colonial cash range from grocery stores, fast food restaurants, and even a few nicer restaurants.

Great food quality, but the hours of the dining hall are inconvenient; they don't open on weekends. Great food around DC and campus, though.

As a freshman you'll have to eat Sodexo food, which is not only overpriced but also likely to give you the runs. There are restaurants everywhere on campus, though, that are acceptable to great. If you go two streets off campus there are very nice places to eat, but everything in DC costs a lot of money.

On campus dining is good but can be expensive. Eating around the city is really good but can also be on the more pricey side.

J Street, our dining hall, is not amazing. Freshman have to have $700/semester on their campus card (GWorld) for J Street, and that will most likely be annoying. Almost everyone dislikes J Street. Yet, the other part of a freshman meal plan is $1000/semester to spend at surrounding restaurants and grocery stores, which is nice. Ultimately, the food is not terrible in J Street, but there are not too many options. There is generic Chinese, generic Indian, generic Italian, a cold cut station, a hot bar, a Vietnamese sandwich place, and an Auntie Anne's.

GW has a great dining program. The freshman dining plan puts a bit less than half of the money towards on- campus dining- J-Street, Pelham Commons, ZeBi, and G-Dub Java. J Street is the main dining hall on the Foggy Bottom campus and contains a variety of options with a diner, Vietnamese food place, Chinese and stir fry, Italian, and a salad and hot bar. Aside from Auntie Anne's, one can pick and choose a healthy meal from J-Street. The majority of the meal plan money goes towards Colonial Cash, which can be used at a number of off-campus vendors. This includes restaurants such as BTS and Au Bon Pain, but also grocery stores such as Safeway and Whole Foods. Given that there are kitchens on at least one floor in each dorm, students have the option to make their own food, an opportunity I suggest taking advantage of to avoid the freshman fifteen!

On campus stinks, but off campus you have a lot of selections and they take G-world (the school money on your ID).

Has a growing presence on campus. Fun for those involved, and frats host a lot of the parties on campus. Not a big deal for students who choose not to go Greek, as there is a lot going on outside of the Greek community as well.

A lot of fun, but do not have to be involved in it to have a social life or a good time.

Greek life is pretty big here, but even if you're in it, it doesn't dominate your life.

About 20%. Not to big nor small. Most fraternaties and sororities have really nice and welcoming members.

Greek Life is present but not dominant at GW, with about one in four students joining a sorority or fraternity. You definitely don't have to join one to have an active social life, but that atmosphere exists at GW for those interested!

It's around. A lot of people are in it, but a lot are not as well. You can also be Greek and be in clubs and work, ect.

Most GW students aren't actually part of Greek Life, but those who are are LOUD about it. Social frats/sororities seem to be a huge part of social life on campus (although those who prefer to go clubbing/explore off campus do that instead). If panhellenic Greek Life isn't for you, though, GW also has a thriving Alternative Greek Life scene as well - APO is a service fraternity, we have professional Business and International Affairs frats/sororities, etc.

Tons of Greek Life on campus. Check out Phi Sigma Sigma!

tons of sororities and fraternaties: business and professional.

no experience in this area.